Coming Up for Air (Audiobook)

from fourbears

George Bowling, in his mid forties and a WWI vet looking at the approach of a new war in the late Thirties reminisces about his life and times. An ordinary guy, not very educated, a commercial traveler with a wife in a slightly higher social cast. He starts out telling the reader about his new fa...

from PilgrimJess

"Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week-well, next week is a long way off." 'Coming Up for Air' is effectively a social document echoing Orwell's socialist views and tells the story of Fatty George Bowling, a middle-aged man who lives with his wife, Hilda, and the...

from tibobi

The Short of It: An odd little book, but what a treasure. The Rest of It: I'm not sure why I enjoy Orwell's writing so much. It may be his pessimistic take on what we call civilization, or it could be that I am a bit of a realist. I see things as they are...no imagined glory here. The same can be...

from theboylatham

Seven out of ten. eBook.Set in the days immediately leading up to WWII, this novel follows George Bowling as he temporarily escapes from his average life. He returns to the village where he grew up, only to find that everything had changed and he couldn't return to his younger, thinner days.Stran...

from eglinton

Orwell drops the simpering sensibilities and experimental narration of the earlier novels, developing here the vigorous delivery of plain words and thoughts so effective in his later essays and in 'Animal Farm' and '1984'.  A suburban clerk everyman looks back nostalgically to an already distant ...